Number of Wigan fans at White Hart Lane today...

[bhaexpress]

I would bet that virtually all that turned up were based in the South East, however seeing as they'd shipped 10 goals in two matches I can understand their reluctance to attend. Still, a great reward for those who did. Rather shows Tottenham as not being as good as they think they are.

 

[Paxton Dazo]

61, actually!

 

[Goring Gull]

They are really not a Premier Leagut club tho - They got to the premier League on cash. Also Wigan is a Rugby Town anyway always has been.

 

[fcportaloo]

Agreed, what a crap world it would be if only "big" clubs were allowed in.

Frankly it makes Wigan's continued presence at the top table all the more admirable if you ask me. It would be easy for the chairman to decide it's not worth the effort. I reckon I'd probably get on a whole lot better with those sixty Wigan die hards than 2000 plastic Arsenal/Chelsea/Man United day trippers.

Perhaps football needs to look at itself if a game at White Hart Lane is so unattractive/expensive only sixty fans will go.

This is good. If the game was realistically priced then fans would attend. If just a couple of thousand of Spurs fans attended too then there would be the reappraisal of pricing etc that football so badly needs. Not a disgrace at all - Wigan fans should commended for not accepting being treated as cash cows. A few more fans like this and football would soon become lots better

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

They are really not a Premier Leagut club tho - They got to the premier League on cash. Also Wigan is a Rugby Town anyway always has been.

So do most clubs, With the Exception of Blackpool and Burnley in recent years most teams have, Make no mistake if Brighton get to the Premiiership it will be down to Money.

 

[beorhthelm]

i gatherd from comments made elsewhere about this that Wigan have a notoriously poor away following. someone above mentioning the Fulham away crowd at Wigan actually illustrates this: even posh Fulham fans are more willing to hike up t'north than Wigan fans are willing to go to the capital to see a top 4 side.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

Wigan Warriors normally bring about 1500 down to London when they play Harlequins RL.

The football club have allways played second fiddle to the rugby club, fervant surpport in the town is for the RL team.

Wigan have done ever so well to stay in the premiership and to be fair there home crowds are alot better than I would have imagined. Thow I expect many will desert if Wigan struggle and drop back down.

 

[Gwylan]

We had amazing away support in the late 70's when we were winning.

I remember us winning at Sunderland and going to the top of Division 2 in front of about 50 away supporters - so it wasn't always amazing.

While the Wigan support doesn't sound great, it should also be remembered that it was the RL cup final that afternoon so there was another attraction for Wigan fans who didn't want to fork out £100.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

At the hotel I was staying at in London at the weekend, I met two wonderful Wigan fans in their 70s who had travelled to see their team

The guy had been supporting the club for years - even watching them as a non-League side going up to top division Newcastle United and drawing 2-2 in the FA Cup in 1954.

Anyway, he said that the club didn't belong in the Premier League and that support was petering out even though this is the club's golden era.

 

[e77]

You don't seem to be able to get the cheap train fares so easily any more and just because the club is rich, the Wigan fans aren't necessarily.

Still, 60 is very low.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

According to Paul Hayward in yesterday's Observer they took 200.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Roberto Martinez and Wigan give hope to the Premier League's underclass

If Wigan's credibility was at stake at White Hart Lane so was the respectability of all the league's stragglers


o Paul Hayward
o The Observer, Sunday 29 August 2010


Wigan Athletic had lost their previous three Premier League matches 8-0, 4-0 and 6-0. So what happened next? They took 200 fatalistic fans to London to confront opponents who will face Internazionale in the Champions League group phase, and motored home with a 1-0 victory that will stop the rest of football comparing them to a cheap dartboard from one of Dave Whelan's sports emporiums.

Those who ask "What's the point of Wigan" have multiplied since the most poorly supported Premier League outpost lost 8-0 at Chelsea on last season's final day, shipped four at home to newly promoted Blackpool at the start of the new term and then donated half a dozen more to the league champions last Saturday. The DW Stadium had resembled a dying franchise, strewn with tumbleweeds, and the team has been losing by rugby league scores.

If Wigan's credibility was at stake at White Hart Lane so was the respectability of all of the league's stragglers. On the day Chelsea whacked six past Roberto Martínez's men, Blackpool went down 6-0 at Arsenal. Savage polarisation seemed to be exposing the division's smallest clubs not only to eternal relegation battles but shame and humiliation at the hands of the mighty.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

According to Paul Hayward in yesterday's Observer they took 200.

I read the same.

The figure of sixty came from the BBC website, in the section where they have photos from the weekend's games.

200 seems a bit more realistic, but that said, if you look at the photo above from White Hart Lane, it does look a whole lot more like sixty than two hundred...

 

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

This bloke has the true figure.

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[Cheeky Monkey]

200 seems a bit more realistic, but that said, if you look at the photo above from White Hart Lane, it does look a whole lot more like sixty than two hundred...

Agreed.

 

[Paxton Dazo]

My Dad [who went] said they definetly didn't have more than 100.

 

[Paxton Dazo]

2nd worst away attendance my Dad's ever seen at the Lane, and he's been going since 1967 .

First being FC Zimbru in the first round of the UEFA Cup in 1999, who brought ...wait for it...TWO!